Inquiry Spring 2007: Innovation

Sustained dialogue combats stereotypes and separatism. With this notion, two SESP honors students founded an innovative organization at Northwestern last fall. Seniors Jen Leyton and Jamie Bagliebter started Bridging the Gap to span the divide between disparate groups on campus

Over 15 years, HDSP faculty have examined how housing policies affect poor families, using both in-depth interviews and statistical survey data. Their research continues today, and they continue to learn new lessons that shape the housing policy innovations of the future

After doctoral student Paulo Blikstein calculated that undergraduate engineering students were hit with an equation every one and a half minutes, he and his adviser, learning sciences associate professor Uri Wilensky, decided that there was a better way to learn the subject  and to learn it with deeper understanding.

To hear Shadd Maruna (PhD93) talk about his groundbreaking research and first book, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives, one would never know that it was touted as ″the most outstanding contribution to criminology in 2001.″